Study for Job
Maker
(artist)
1472-1517
1472-1517
Title
Study for Job
Date of Production
(circa) 1516
Medium
black chalk on laid paper prepared with a red chalk ground, laid down on a historic mount; a drawing hidden on the verso is evident in transmitted light but unable to see clearly due to mount
Dimensions
Height: 15.8 cm
Width: 9.4 cm
Width: 9.4 cm
Accession Number
D.1978.PG.350
Mode of Acquisition
Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Benjamin West, London (1738-1820) [according to J. Byam Shaw, though there is no L.419]; by descent to Mrs E.K. Roule [according to J. Byam Shaw]; purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 20 October 1959; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 4 November 1959 (£400); Princes Gate Bequest 1978
Literature
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 350
pl. XXXI
dated 1516
no. 350
pl. XXXI
dated 1516
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: upper right corner, graphite: “26”; lower right, brown ink: a paraphe [not found on Lugt] and lower centre, brown ink in same hand: “Frate Bart.mo”; lower right corner, graphite, Colnaghi number: “D.23905”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper right, graphite, modern hand: “for Uffizi picture / cf also Uffizi drawing BB 237 / (Venturi ix.I. fig. 241)”; lower right, brown ink: “J.D.L. 75” [not found on Lugt, could it be related to L.3510?].
Collector's mark: none (although see inscriptions, which include a paraphe not found on Lugt; no evidence of L.419).
Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: upper right corner, graphite: “26”; lower right, brown ink: a paraphe [not found on Lugt] and lower centre, brown ink in same hand: “Frate Bart.mo”; lower right corner, graphite, Colnaghi number: “D.23905”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper right, graphite, modern hand: “for Uffizi picture / cf also Uffizi drawing BB 237 / (Venturi ix.I. fig. 241)”; lower right, brown ink: “J.D.L. 75” [not found on Lugt, could it be related to L.3510?].
Collector's mark: none (although see inscriptions, which include a paraphe not found on Lugt; no evidence of L.419).
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